Taxpayer funded free and compulsory public education is a Socialist experiment that has failed.

Education is best provided by the free market, achieving greater quality, accountability and efficiency with more diversity of choice. Recognizing that the education of children is a parental responsibility, we would restore authority to parents to determine the education of their children, without interference from government. Parents should have control of and responsibility for their childrens education. Parents, not the taxpayers, should pay for their childrens education.

A college degree dont mean nothing. When we started letting "educated" people decide who gets hired and why, we had to start dumbing down our work force. The only reason places require degrees is because the ones doing the hiring were stupid enough to pay for book learning and want to pat other book learners on the back.. I personally dont think someone should be hired into a managerial position until they are capable of doing every job they supervise. I will take a common sense kinda person over a book worm anytime. Doctors should be taught by other doctors in an apprenticeship environment. Hands on is by far the best way to learn, understand, and remember. We have all memorized something long enough to pass the test, then forgotten about it simply because its useless information to retain..

...if you're referring to my comment...I'm afraid you're wrong....just do the math...kids in Japan and china are far ahead in education than kids in the USA....one reason...their governments support education all the way...where in the USA...our government cuts spending on education....

<quoted text>...if you're referring to my comment...I'm afraid you're wrong....just do the math...kids in Japan and china are far ahead in education than kids in the USA....one reason...their governments support education all the way...where in the USA...our government cuts spending on education....

You are wrong.

Education in China is a state-run system of public education run by the Ministry of Education. All citizens must attend school for at least nine years, known as the nine-year compulsory education, which the government funds. It includes six years of primary education, starting at age six or seven, and three years of junior secondary education (middle school) for ages 12 to 15.

Note, after age 15, or completion of the 8th grade, only those who are qualified go on to high school. So, yes, they out perform U.S. high school students. Our system is held back because it takes all, including the dullards who are too dumb to benefit from anything more than the basics of reading and simple arithmetic. Chinese high schools take just the smartest and fittest for education. Chinese 15 year olds either go to a trade school or into the labor force.

Some provinces may have five years of primary school but four years for middle school. After middle school, there are three years of high school, which then completes the secondary education. The Ministry of Education reported a 99 percent attendance rate for primary school and an 80 percent rate for both primary and middle schools. In 1985, the government abolished tax-funded higher education, requiring university applicants to compete for scholarships based on academic ability.

Again, note: Chinese colleges only admit the smartest students in a highly competitive system. The U.S.A. is a take all comers system subsidized by the taxpayers.

If parents in the U.S.A. had to pay for all their children's education, those children would perform just as well or better than in China or Japan.

We condemn compulsory education laws, which spawn prison-like schools with many of the problems associated with prisons, and we call for an immediate repeal of such laws.

End government involvement in education. Immediately reduce tax support for schools, and remove the burden of school taxes from people who do not have children in the schools. Eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, which spends billions on education and educates no one. The growth of this agency and its numerous regulations is a major reason for runaway costs in American schools.

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